Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marion ("Sandy") Sanford, a respected and putatively neutral Austin lobbyist, says, "This is not the N.R.A,; this is spontaneous combustion"--fueled by the same dread that has stoked the success of death-penalty campaigns and "Three strikes and you're in." The desire for self-preservation in the face of an increase in random violence and understaffed police forces can express itself, without paradox, in both an assault-weapons ban and in the desire to pack one's own handgun. Says Gary Huttenhoff, a real estate appraiser who has just picked up his laminated wallet-size permit from Sheriff Anderson...
...Africa by a smuggled monkey, the virus has the capacity to decimate internal organs within hours, and spread to the entire United States within days. Dr. Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) and Dr. Roberta Keough (Rene Russo) are the doctors in charge of containing and finding a cure for this dread disease...
...them. "Oh man, they suck," is theword in the Yard on peer group outreaches,according to John F. Blackmer '98. Even though hecontinues, "whenever 1600 people in the Yard aresaying one word together, it's probably prettyshallow," the message is still clear. First-yearshave a tendency to dread outreaches...
...Give me the damn encyclopedia!'' I shout. Hearing the dread word, my nephews erupt from the rug and flee...
...firstto nostalgia, then longing and finally abandon.Her young lover Ruggero (Joel L. Derfner) iswinningly earnest in both voice and appearance.Saccente puts in another solid performance asMagda's "gentleman friend" Rambaldo. Themephistophelian poet Prunier (Michael J. Olbash)is affably effete, but perhaps a bit stiff as theadvocate of love's "dread disease...